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_Around a corner in the wine cellar stumbles a surly, two-foot tall man carrying an open bottle of wine. He has a bushy beard and wears a rumpled, red overcoat over a dirty white shirt and kneelength red trousers with blue stockings and silver-buc...
_Swimming upright, this creature peels itself from the vibrant seascape and strikes with needle-thin claws, shredding teeth, and a wickedly curved stinger._ **Camouflaged Hunter.** Like a piece of moving coral, this drake’s coloration and scale ...
A wrinkly, purple-skinned pixie with small black horns and bat wings flits about, chanting a violent song about harvesting organs._ Corrupted pixies are fey turned fiends who savor violence. **Corrupted by Hags.** Hags sometimes capture pixies...
_A constant shimmer surrounds this short, winged creature, and staring at it is eyewatering and confusing, like a distant desert mirage though it’s only scant yards away._ **Desert Mirage Fey.** Daus are creatures of haze and illusion. They stan...
_These enormous clouds of orange and green butterflies add a reek of putrefaction to the air, stirred by the flapping of their delicate wings._ **Demon-Haunted.** A death butterfly swarm results when a rare breed of carrion-eating butterflies, d...
The putrid stench of death wafts off a grotesquely muscled vulture with glowing green eyes. It opens its mouth in a shrill call, rotting meat dripping from its beak._ Death vultures are giant birds transformed by their diet of undead flesh. **...
Deep Ones With enormous eyes, a wide mouth, and almost no chin, the deep ones are hideous, fishlike folk, often hunched and scaled when encountered in coastal villages. _**Elder Gods.**_ In their fully grown form, the deep ones are an ocean-dwel...
_This blue-skinned creature resembles a stunted dwarf. Its eyes are large and its hair wild, and both are colorless. The expression on its face is a terrible rictus of madness and hate._ All derro are mad, but some devote their very souls to the...
_An eye golem is muscular giant, well-proportioned with smooth, marble-white skin covered in eye-like sigils. When it opens one of its eyes opens for a moment, a beam as bright as the sun shines forth, piercing the darkness._ **Covered in Arcana...
_These human-sized parasites resemble ghostly centipedes surrounded in erratic violet radiance. Their flesh is translucent and their jaws are crystalline—they are clearly creatures of strange planes indeed._ **Destiny Destroyers.** Fate eaters i...
This large clockwork mantis is surprisingly nimble and fast, capable of taking down foes with a lethal flurry of serrated claws and bites._ **Wanted by Gnomes.** The existence of these wandering clockwork monsters creates a bad reputation for pe...
The colláis is a large, deer-like creature covered in thick, black fur. A great rack of antlers grows from its thick skull, in which prominent eye sockets display two red embers for eyes. The monster has no mouth; instead, a coarse beard grows in ...
Necromancers, both living and dead, sometimes come together to make massive undead creatures known collectively as “necrotech”. In nations ruled by undead, these massive creations often act as siege weapons or powerful modes of transportation._ ...
The diminution drake removes its stinger from its prey, watching them shrink to one-foot-tall. It then flings its spaghetti-like tongue around the pint-sized victim and engulfs it in one swift motion._ This draconic hunter can shrink or grow fro...
A hulking being with a dragon’s head and a patchwork of black, blue, green, red, and white scales for skin lurches forward on two legs, raising clawed fists into the air._ Dragonflesh golems are rare constructs created from the remains of dead c...
_This swanlike creature’s feathers are made of shining metal. When it inhales, the feathers on its chest glow red hot._ Eala are beautiful but deadly creatures native to the plane of Shadow. They grow feathers like their Material Plane counterpa...
_Stout bearded warriors with golden auras, the einherjar wear chain mail and carry two-handed battle axes and oaken shields— their badges and symbols are all different, and it is said no two braid their beards quite alike._ As the spirits of war...
_Eleinomae, or marsh nymphs, are beautiful fey who hold sway over many wetlands, from the chill to the tropical. They wear distinctive dresses fashioned from reeds and water lilies._ **Nets for Travelers.** Eleinomae are cruel and depraved creat...
_The air crackles and lights flicker in the ruins. In a whirl of colorful robes, the drifter materializes from the unfathomable maelstroms of time. His eyes scan the hall in panic, anticipating the terrible revelations of yet another era._ **Adr...
The gnome-like creature flutters from tree to tree, sporting colorful, avian features._ **Avian Fey.** Flithidirs are small fey that embody the bright, chaotic nature of birds. They are slender and keen-eyed with feathery crests and feathered wi...
_The people of Leng are hideous and malevolent, with goatlike legs and small horns they keep concealed beneath turbans, and mouths full of rows of serrated teeth, somewhat akin to sharks. They have a fondness for combining heavy leathers and brigh...
A **frog** has no effective attacks. It feeds on small insects and typically dwells near water, in trees, or underground. The frog’s statistics can also be used to represent a **toad**.
_Several pony-sized ants swarm around an ant the size of a draft horse, clacking their serrated mandibles and threatening with their stingers._ Giant ants look much like a normal ant with six legs, a waspish segmented body, and large antenna. Th...
Large Beast, CR 2. From Tome of Beasts 2023.